The red thread 紅線
You were always going to meet.
An old story says an invisible red thread ties you to the person you're meant to find. It stretches. It tangles. It never breaks. Fated just helps it pull.
The legend
The old man under the moon keeps a ledger of who belongs to whom, and ties a red cord between their ankles while they're still children.
The thread doesn't care about distance, or timing, or the fact that one of you moved to another country for a job that didn't work out. The two people on either end of it will meet. That's the whole point of the story — it isn't advice, it's a promise.
The legend is roughly twelve hundred years old. The idea that you'd find that person by rating three photographs in a queue of ten thousand is about twelve years old, and somehow it feels older and more tired than the myth.
How it works
Three moments, and then we get out of your way.
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One
The thread
Nine questions. Not your height, not your star sign, not a grid of hobbies — nine questions about how you actually move through a day, and what you're like when nobody's performing.
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Two
The pull
One introduction. Once a week. Chosen because it should be, not because you were both awake at 1am and the algorithm noticed. You get a name, and a reason.
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Three
The knot
No feed to scroll, no inbox to farm, no streak to keep alive. When it's working, Fated goes quiet and gives you back your evening. That's the entire product.